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The "golden" collection of a great shooter.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 73 / 76
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sure it's a violent shooter game. So what? It's still fun, and isn't that all that matters? Unreal Gold collects together the original Unreal series: the original game, the expansion pack "Return to Nai Pali", and a bonus feature on the semi-sequel, Unreal Tournament. The original game is absolutely astounding. Set in a distant future, you are a prisoner on board the prison ship Vortex Rikers, en route to a prison colony. Along the way, something happens and your ship crashes onto a distant planet. As you make your way through the game, the plot begins to take shape. Apparently, sometime ago the peaceful Nali, the original inhabitants of this planet, were enslaved by the glactic thug species known as the Skaarj. Nai Pali is the planet version of the Bermuda Triangle, as many other ships have crashed here besides your own. Escape becomes your goal, as the Skaarj posess the only shuttles that can escape the planet's gravity. The graphics are simply mind-blowing, so I recommend a 3DFX graphics card, like the Voodoo 2 or better. The gameplay is intense, so be sure you have a good processor for this. It was released a few years ago, but if you have a recent computer you won't have any troubles. Another plus to this collection is that if you bought the two games seperately, it would cost double what you pay for the collection, and who doesn't like saving money? In short: if you like hardcore action gaming, Unreal Gold will not dissapoint.

I wish I could give this game 10 stars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: February 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As other reviews of this game have mentioned, Unreal is phenomenal! Of the first person shooters I've played, this one is way better than most. The amazingly rich environments suck you deep into the plight of the peaceful Nali and the cruel world of their oppressors. When you awaken in your cell, you are alone, the bodies of your shipmates bloodied and lifeless. Many are torn in two. Sirens and garbled voice recordings break the uneasy silence, as you crawl through the battered remains of the ship, only to find that you are the sole survivor, lost on a planet full of hostile beings intent on your demise. That is only the beginning, though. Your travels to escape the planet will lead you through many varied locations that are very easy to differentiate from one another, each one more visually stunning than the last. That is definately one of Unreal's strong points. The brilliant designers do not allow for the levels to become tediously repetitive. Each environment has it's own personality. Another strong point, and perhaps most important, is the enemy. Long gone are the days of Doom when enemies would simply stand their ground, and trade fire with you. These enemies are much more cunning than that. They will use cover, snipe at you from high perches, duck fire, dodge and even call for back-up if neccessary. Some of your enemies will even try to draw you into traps and ambushes. As another reviewer noted, this is a first-person-perspective game. It is NOT Tomb Raider. Tomb raider never drew you in to the point where you would actually jump in front of your monitor as an enemy soldier dropped though a sky light, only to land within a few feet of you, guns blazing. With Unreal, you do, it's that enthralling. This game is exceptionally challenging and rewarding, making most shooters pale in comparison. I was most impressed with the dramatic lighting, ambient sound and music, utilized to it's full potential, making this lengthy epic bristle with life and tension. This is an ideal purchase for anyone who does'nt already have this classic in their library. You can take or leave the included expansion pack, as it simply doesn't offer much more variety to the original experience, but don't over-look this title due to it's now ridiculously low price. For unparalleled on-line battle, check out Unreal tournament. But for one-player off-line mayhem, it doesn't get any better than this.

The DEFINITIVE one player first person shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: January 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have been aware of Unreal's existence for quite a while since my roommate had played it and said he enjoyed it, but I only got around to playing it the Fall of 2000. And it debuted in early 1998. So why did I go back and play this when I could have easily picked up a newer title? Simple: this game is AMAZING. I have a fast system (800 Mhz, 256 MB Ram), but when I played this game, I was using a voodoo 3 2000 video card, which is certainly was not top of the line (can be found for around $50). I was able to run this game with 1024x768 resolution and high graphics detail with NO SLOWDOWN. It looked incredible! People would come in and ask if I was using the FSAA on my voodoo 5 (a special graphic enchancing feature on a high end approx. $200 card). It just looked that good! But we all know looks can't make a game fun. This game has some of the smartest AI programmed for adversaries ever. They will strafe, roll, and duck out of the way of your shots, making them tricky to defeat. And in addition, the placement of the enemies made me jump on many an occasion, the sound effects were BRILLIANT and the music changed as the environment around you changed to keep it in the perfect mood. Buy this game, it is an EXCELLENT addition to any gamer's arsenal!

Truly Wondrous!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: February 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wondrous is the word that best describes Unreal! Showcasing the best 1st-person engine of its kind and graphics that totally blew away anything of its time,Unreal stands as a monoment to what the PC can do.

Never before have I played a game with such an immersing storyline without a single word being spoken to me. That's it! There are no NPCs! There is no interaction! Yet you totally become your character. IT is amazing how much detail from the glorious outdoor scenes like the paradise waterfall to the minute detail of prisoners in their cell.

With each hallway, corridor, ravine, and door, you are pulled onto the edge of your seat and not released as you fight your way through the planet filled with legitimately scary alien races who take utter glee out of torturing and destroying other races. It is very intense!

This is a must for people who like games! If you like 1st person shooters, this will top your list! If you don't like 1st-person shooters, YOU WILL LIKE THIS ONE!

A total success. Bravo!

OH MY GOD!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: January 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

seriously guys... this is the BEST- i mean- BEST game you can buy. The graphics and AI of the enemies are incredible. The way water (there are countless types (everything from murky to clear) reflects off walls and torches glow, the sounds, the sky is breath taking. (if you could see the cliff in level two you'd understand) everything is simply amazing. I couldnt get enough of it. The story line is simple, but good enough, and you move through TONS of different environments including castles on cliffs, underground, villages, outer-space, canyons, broken-down and spaceships. Another added touch mentioned over again is the complexity of the enemies. They dont all die or act the same. It depends where you shoot them and there are tons and tons of variations of how the bad guys act.

Many people think Unreal Tournament is better, it is good, but cant be compared because the games are so different. Tournament is a multiplayer-type game. Unreal is a run through levels to get out type game. They are both excellent.

Back to Unreal, I had heard about this game from some gaming magazine before it had come out and it talked about how it was going to be the BEST game ever dealing with graphics and such. I had it set on defaults so it would run smoothest and it still was truly the most amazing thing i had ever seen on a computer screen. Adding the special graphics not set in defaults made it even better. I seriously could not get enough. It has absolutely awesome guns (flak cannon rules) and some really wicked bad guys that are actually hard to kill (dodge bullets, run to get friends) and can think, unlike most games (doom, duke nukem)

There is only one downfall, that may not even be a downfall. It is in first-person view-you only see the gun. I absolutely love Tomb Raider based soley on the fact that it is in third-person. As a result, you cant climb on stuff ect. I would never play tomb raider if Unreal was in thrid-person.

That aside, it really was amazing. All i can say is buy it at any cost. I got it right away when it came out for 40.. it is now 10 i think.. pocket change. Get it.. you will not look at anyother game the same again.. i guarentee it.

Unreal is well, Unreal...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: August 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unreal Gold is a packaged version of both the original Unreal and its expansion. For its price, it is a great value. And it's even better if you do not play multiplayer games cause the other released version, Totally Unreal features Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament, which is a wonderful multiplayer game. If you do not play multiplayer games, then buy this Gold edition. If you do, spend the extra money and get Totally Unreal. Or even better yet, get Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal 2, and Totally Unreal for the most unreal experience ever!

Unreal was originally released to be a DOOM killer back in DOOM's prime time, but the entire project was screwed up, so it ended up getting released in 1998. The GRAPHICS of Unreal were unsurpassed at the time. No one could match it. Although today, it can be matched, 1998 was the time of Starcraft, so from there you can get a view on how much superior it was than back ago. Graphics: 9/10

The sound in the beginning of the game is pretty good. Although it is a bit scary at first when you hear blood-curdling screams while you try to escape from a prison ship and when you are about to get off, you see a heart fly out of a door way, it is all covered by excellent sound. The music is also pretty good. Not excellent, but still good enough. Sound: 8/10

In Unreal, you have to read a lot of text. You get a translator in the beginning and from then you read a LOT of text to reveal that you are on Na Pali and the Skaarj Empire has taken over. Story: 8.5/10

Unreal is fun, kinda gory, but overall, a grat experience if you have not played it before. Be sure to get Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal 2 for the PC and Unreal Championship for the XBOX for an "unreal" experience! Enjoy!

Halo fans, thought it couldn't get any better?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing Unreal Gold for the past couple years. Not only has it grown onto me, but for those who appriciate a godo game, here's my favorite details:

Excelent music which you'll never forget, amazing worlds of all kinds, ranging from huge spacecraftst to peaceful villages, and enough weapons to live in trigger happy heaven. Interesting concepts, challenging missions, completely unreal animals and races, tons of surprises, terrifying at times and rediculously fun at others. Useing a translator you can read the journals of those who did not survive along the journey, and signals or messages. There are available simple cheats which can be fun at times. There's always fun in a little god mode and weapon summoning right?

In my opinion, I'm fascinated by this game. It has an overall great atmosphere, although not the greatest plot it's still appealing. You suffer no save points, no bosses at the end of every level, no telling you you can't go somewhere or do something - this game just lets you play. This is my favorite of all the Unreal series. It'll grow onto you like the video game classics. (By the way I can't emphasize how cool the soundtrack is!)

THE ABSOLUTELY UNSURPASSED CLASSIC FPS!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Where should I begin praising the PERFECT GAME?

Graphically, it may seem dated today yet it was cutting edge at its time. I remember getting the original game, almost 10 years ago, bundled with an nVidia graphix-card - and could not believe my eyes! Beautifully rendered surfaces, exceptional environments and an UNBELIEVABLE sky.

The original UNREAL could easily double as a lecture on game design sound. Majestic background music, mood setting themes and effective environmental additions make this THE PERFECT GAME in that aspect too.

The weapons are well designed, there are in-game upgrades for them and all have two different modes of firing! Walk and there is (adjustable) bobbing. Jump and you better had measured the distance or land in water - otherwise you get torn to pieces.

The game is pretty much linear, yet shortcuts or back-doors are available at numerous points - so exploring is encouraged. Simple puzzles add to the game's appeal (push a lever to drop the ladder here or turn the power on to activate the elevator there) - and usually reward with a weapon powerup.

Something lacking in many shooters even today is UNREAL's balance and fairness: you could take an enemy down with a single sniper headshot - but so could they. UNREAL was the first game that WHERE you landed your shot started to count on the damage it did. EPIC had done a MONUMENTAL JOB!

What separated this game from the rest though were mainly two things: its unsurpassed atmosphere and its immersive story.
From the very first moment you wake up on the prison ship that was carrying you but crashed on an alien planet, you are gripped by fear and apprehension. You get only fleeing glimpses of the aliens - yet find ample evidence of their cruel handiwork on the ship's crew.
The first weapon you get is quite weak so you actually believe to be wandering out of the ship an into a world unknown with a puny phase gun. As the game progresses you are rewarded with both confidence and very impressive and innovative weapons. Who can forget the spinning blade-gun, blades bouncing around and shooting around corners but also yourself if not careful!

On top of everything else, the game is HUGE! The content of the original UNREAL alone would have been released in at least 3 installments today... Not to mention its (included for free!) multiplayer that spawned the UNREAL TOURNAMENT series.

They just don't make them like this anymore...

WITH THE HIGHEST RECOMMENDATIONS !!!

Great Game to add to gaming library

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game to play. Its a classic. I have fun playing it for hours. Still going and there are still people alot of people on the mulitplayer willing to play with. Excellent!!

My favorite PC game of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game, already several years old, remains my favorite computer game. I just love everything about this game: the weapons, the storyline, the graphics, even the music! Unreal Gold is actually divided into two different "mission packs" (both included on this cd): First, Unreal, then Return to Na Pali.

The plot of Unreal is pretty simple: you're a prisoner that has just escaped from a huge space craft that's crashed landed on a mysterious planet, filled with just about every kind of evil creature you could possible imagine! Now, you must bravely fight your way through literally dozens of challenging levels, both on land and in water, in your search to find a servicable space ship you can use to escape.

Different levels challenge different fears: you have to go underwater and face large reptile-like creatures and man-eating fish (and that's just for starters!), fight large spiders in totally dark rooms, and walk on the edges of cliffs and along narrow bridges (one slip and you've had it, buddy!). The villians get increasingly more intelligent and harder to kill as the game progresses, but your weapons also get increasingly better! You can choose four different levels of difficulty: easy, medium, hard, and "unreal"(-only for the bravest of the bave!). I recommend playing the game on easy mode until you get the hang of things.

After you finally win Unreal, you get to play "part 2": Return to Na Pali, in which you get to return to the same evil planet you just escaped from (oh boy!) and face even tougher villians as you try to find a crashed spaceship and its important cargo. Return to Na Pali wasn't quite as difficult as Unreal, although there are two extremely tough levels where you have to walk on slippery ice constantly while facing enemies and treacherous cliffs! In short, Unreal Gold is an awesome game that will challenge and entertain you like no other pc game! And yes, this game works great on computers with Windows XP. Highly recommended!

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